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1	Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist This landmark one-volume reworking of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy--"Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River," and "Bone by Bone"--reveals one of America's finest writes at the peak of his career. see all copies from $2.10! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Snow Leopard more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist Author Matthiessen documents his travels in Nepal with naturalist George Schaller, including his attempts to come to grips with his wife's death from cancer, and his general pondering of questions of life and death. The snow leopard becomes a symbol to Matthiessen of the elusive silence of the peace of Zen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tree Where Man Was Born more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist This book details Matthiessen's travels in East Africa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	In the Spirit of Crazy Horse more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist After eight years in the American courts, this book examines the shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indian activists which erupted on a reservation in South Dakota. The confrontation ended with the death of three men, two of them FBI officers. Eventually, four Indians were indicted on murder charges. One of them, Leonard Peltier, is still ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Lost Man's River more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist The story of Lucius Watson and his obsession with learning the truth about his father - a man branded a murderer and then himself savagely killed by a score of vigilantes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World more books like this by Helena Norberg-Hodge, H H The Dalai Lama (Foreword by), Peter Matthiessen (Introduction by) add to wishlist A gripping portrait of the western Himalayan land sometimes known as "Little Tibet," "Ancient Futures" opens with author Helena Norberg-Hodge's first visit in 1975 to idyllic, preindustrial Ladakh. She then tracks the profound changes that occurred as the region was opened to foreign tourists and Western goods and technologies, and offers a ... see all copies from $10.16! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
7	Killing Mister Watson more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist By the author of "The Snow Leopard", "The Tree Where Man Was Born" and "On the River Styx", this novel is based around the circumstances of the death of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community and who very possibly had a criminal past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	At Play in the Fields of the Lord more books like this by Peter Matthiessen (Read by) add to wishlist Martin Quarrier is an earnest, well-meaning, but seriously misguided missionary who wants to convert an Amazonian Indian tribe to Christianity. Lewis Moon is an American Indian turned mercenary who has been hired to wipe them out. Matthiessen's now classic novel is not only an engrossing story but a protest against the missionary urge to inflict ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Bone by Bone more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist The last book in the Mr Watson trilogy, it charts his rise as an entrepreneurial sugarcane farmer in the wilds of the Everglades, and brings to life an anti-hero possessing both a complex character and profound humanity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Sand Rivers more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica more books like this by Peter Matthiessen, Kenneth Garrett (Photographer), Birgit Freybe Bateman (Photographer) add to wishlist Now in a paperback edition, America's greatest literary naturalist takes readers on the ultimate wildlife safari: a true back-of-beyond voyage to the world's most unforgiving land, the islands off Antarctica's northern ice shelf, and to that second most remote place on earth, South Georgia Island, "the last outpost in a great emptiness of ocean." ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	North American Indians more books like this by George Catlin, Peter Matthiessen (Editor) add to wishlist From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin, American ethnologist, travelled extensively among the native peoples of North America - from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.91! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Men's lives more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist Available for the first time in a text-only edition, Peter Matthiessen's acclaimed Men's Lives should enjoy the kind of success that greeted John McPhee's Pine Barrens and William Warner's Beautiful Swimmers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Cloud Forest more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist Matthiessen chronicles his travels through the South American wilderness: the Amazon rain forest, Machu Picchu, Tierra del Fuego--200,000 miles in all. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Wind Birds more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist A classic of nature writing: National Book Award-winner Peter Matthiessen conveys the biological and behavioral intricacies of shorebirds. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $51.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Under the Mountain Wall more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist This book is a portrait of the Kurelu tribe in New Guinea. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can) more books like this by Peter Matthiessen, Ilan Stavans (Foreword by) add to wishlist In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. This book is Matthiessen's panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent travelling and working with Chavez. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Far Tortuga more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist An old Caribbean schooner and her crew, dreaming of a simple island past, drift south across the oceans to the fishing grounds of their forefathers. Before the "Lillias Eden" and her nine doomed men there lies Far Tortuga, a speck off the coast of Nicaragua - a treacherous fishing ground. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Peter Matthiessen Reader more books like this by Peter Matthiessen, Jenkins McKay, McKay Jenkins (Introduction by) add to wishlist This selection includes portions of 13 of Peter Matthiessen's books, including WILDLIFE IN AMERICA, IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE, MEN'S LIVES, and AFRICAN SILENCES. see all copies from $2.64! new only from $7.19! \| first editions
20 view cover	Birds of heaven : travels with cranes more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist TRAVELS WITH CRANES is Peter Matthiessen's exploration of a bird whose history goes back to early legends and myths. As he chronicles the history, biology, and present status of the 15 crane species, Matthiessen makes important observations not only about the birds themselves but about the future of the planet. Illustrated with spectacular color ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Tigers in the snow more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist In these probing essays, the celebrated nature writer Peter Matthiessen chronicles the plight of the nearly extinct Siberian tiger, and explores his own deeply rooted connections to the environment. Color photos and illustrations throughout. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Indian Country: 7 more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist A nonfiction book that considers the dissolution of Native American culture, which Matthiessen sees as being both inevitable and brutal. see all copies from $1.99! SVS
23	Shadows of Africa more books like this by Peter Matthiessen, Mary Frank add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Tree Where Man Was Born more books like this by Eliot Porter (Photographer), Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist This book details Matthiessen's travels in East Africa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.00! \| first editions
25	The shorebirds of North America. more books like this by Gardner D. Stout, Peter Matthiessen, Robert Verity Clem, Ralph S. Palmer add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! signed copies \| first editions

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